Maryland Family Law Maryland family law opinions and commentary

Divorce — Marital settlement agreement — Validity of addendum Casey Gaines (“Husband”) and Kindra Gaines (“Wife”) were married in 2008 and separated in 2018. The parties attached a Marital Settlement Agreement (“MSA”) to their complaint for divorce filed in February ...

Alimony — Indefinite alimony — Basis for revision This case is before us on appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County granting a petition for contempt filed by appellee, Reena Eapen (“Eapen”), against her ex-husband, Christopher ...

Divorce — Marital property — Distribution David Thorne (“Husband”) and Cynthia Beuchert, formerly Cynthia Thorne, (“Wife”) were divorced and a Judgment of Absolute Divorce was entered by the Circuit Court for Charles County on August 19, 2015. As part of ...

Divorce — Alimony — Calculation Following a four-day trial in November 2019, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County granted appellant Kelvin Lamont Reaves and appellee Leya Wilks Reaves a judgment of absolute divorce. Relevant to this appeal, the court awarded ...

Divorce — Marital property — Calculation Asif I. Balbale (“Appellant”) and Houria Balbale (“Appellee”) were married in Morocco on April 14, 2006. Thereafter, Appellant and Appellee had four (4) children together between May 2008 and August 2017. On July 27, ...

Divorce — Marital property — Calculation Appellant, Heidi Michele Weaver (“Mother”), and Appellee, Brandon Weaver (“Father”), were divorced pursuant to a Judgment of Absolute Divorce (the “Judgment”) entered by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The Judgment addressed and resolved ...

Divorce — Marital property — Valuation After a marriage of 13 years, the parties to this litigation, Rudolf Kamper and Marcia Kamper, separated in 2016, and were divorced by judgment of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in July 2019. ...

Divorce — Settlement agreement — Breach A party cannot enter into an agreement, fail to do what the agreement requires, and then reap the benefits of its own failures. While they were married, Trevor and Kelly Wells jointly owned real ...

Divorce — Failure to return ex’s computer files — Attorney’s fees award This case comes before us a second time on appeal from a judgment awarding attorney’s fees and expert costs after we remanded for the circuit court to articulate ...

Divorce — Settlement agreement — Effect of brief pre-divorce reconciliation In 2011, Zemzem Bedada, Appellee/Wife, filed a complaint for absolute or limited divorce in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County seeking to dissolve her marriage to Ahmed Maregn Mohamed, Appellant/Husband ...